Category Archives: Health care

Failing CDC Chief Rochelle Walensky Makes Confession, Announces “Shake Up” via Committee When She Should Resign

Rochelle Walenksy makes an all-too-obvious gambit to save her spot at the CDC. But the very initiative proves she should resign.

Buy and Bust: Collapse of Private Equity-Backed Rural Hospitals Mired Employees in Medical Bills

Bad enough when private equity hurts customers and communities. Here they stole from employees by defaulting on health insurance

The Opioid Crisis Isn’t Just the Sacklers’ Fault – and Making Purdue Pharma Pay Isn’t Enough on Its Own to Fix the Pharmaceutical Industry’s Deeper Problems

Focusing on the Sacklers as villains obscures the problems that permeate the entire pharmaceutical industry.

Serotonin and the Unsubstantiated Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Disorders

A foundational theory on the role of serotonin is a mere unsupported intuition, but mass drug peddling is nevertheless based on it.

How Public Real Estate Investment Trusts Extract Wealth from Nursing Homes and Hospitals

REITs are considered “passive” investors but play a very active role in reshaping whole industries, like hospitals

Hospices Have Become Big Business for Private Equity Firms, Raising Concerns About End-of-Life Care

Expect hospice care to go the way of privately-owned nursing homes, now that private equity is geting its claws into the industry.

Common Medications May Increase the Dangers of Heat Waves

Some medications may interfere with sweat production, alter the body’s internal thermostat, or make dehydration more likely.

“The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine”

On the rotten state of evidence-baded medicine, and whether there is any way out.

IM Doc Could Not Get A Monkeypox Test for a Patient. What That Says About the Sorry State of the CDC and Public Health

The US Is flying blind on monkeypox, and the CDC and public health officials are unwilling to break a sweat to correct that.

Excluding Insulin From Drug Price Reform a ‘Slap in the Face,’ Advocates Say

Schumer should reinsert insulin price negotiation and a $35 monthly cap on out-of-pocket insulin costs into Democrats reconciliation bill

Biden’s FTC Has Blocked 4 Hospital Mergers and Is Poised to Thwart More Consolidation Attempts

The Biden administration’s new majority on the commission is primed to more aggressively combat consolidation in the health care industry than it has in past years.